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[ad_1] Scientists have created an evolutionary model to predict how animals should react in stressful situations. Almost all organisms have fast-acting stress responses, which help them respond to threats, but being stressed consumes energy and chronic stress can be harmful. The new study by an international team, which includes researchers …

[ad_1] The smallest primate in the world reveals the incredible preservation of our visual system through millions of years of evolution. The gray mouse lemur, the smallest species of primate, has excellent eyesight. More than a fifth of its cerebral cortex is devoted to visual processing to accommodate enough pixel …

[ad_1] Scientists have created an evolutionary model to predict how animals should react in stressful situations. Almost all organisms have fast-acting stress responses, which help them respond to threats, but being stressed consumes energy and chronic stress can be harmful. The new study – led by an international team that …

[ad_1] University of Gothenburg Bird species that have lost the ability to fly through evolution have become extinct more often than birds that have retained their ability to fly, according to new research from the University of Gothenburg. Today we know that human influence on the environment has caused the …

[ad_1] According to new research published today, ancient deep-sea creatures called radiodont had an incredible vision that likely led an evolutionary arms race. The international study, led by Professor John Paterson of the University of New England’s Palaeoscience Research Center, in collaboration with the University of Adelaide, the South Australian …

[ad_1] An entirely new species of gelatin was discovered using high-definition video during an expedition in 2015. The creature was classified as a new species thanks to the video’s high resolution, which allowed scientists to describe it in great detail. There are over 150 species of scallop jelly in Earth’s …

[ad_1] We first found out that the platypus would look great at a rave, now wombats, bilbies and other marsupials can join the black light party – with scientists unexpectedly discovering that they all glow beautifully fluorescent green, blue and pink under the UV light. In recent years, scientists have …

[ad_1] Brad Shaffer / UCLA Turtles with many genetic variations were much more likely to survive after they moved to a Fish and Wildlife Service site in Nevada. In Nevada’s arid Ivanpah Valley, just southeast of Las Vegas, a massive involuntary animal conservation experiment revealed an unexpected result. From 1997 …

[ad_1] Composite image of the moth Antheraea pernyi (top) and the butterfly Graphium agamemnon (bottom) showing photographs on the left and ultrasound (tomography) on the right. Notice how moth wings have weaker echoes (acoustic image) than butterfly wings.Marc Holderied and Thomas Neil False color 3D representation of a 0.21 mm …

[ad_1] University of Hawaii Merciless eels on the top of the submarine mountain in CCZ; over 9,800 feet deep. (Photo credit: Drazen Lab / UH Mānoa; Deep CCZ Exp) The largest aggregation of fish ever recorded in the abyssal deep sea was discovered by a team of oceanographers from the …